Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the afternoon they did not find any suitable cottages to stay in , and it was too cold to sleep outside . |
| 2 | For studying botany in the field they did not have far to go . |
| 3 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 4 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 5 | Whatever the technicalities of coming out of the recession , to those engaged in the industry it does not appear to be over . |
| 6 | He heard the key grating ineffectively in the wards of the lock it did not fit , and her vexed , angry breathing as she wrestled to make it enter where it would not go . |
| 7 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 8 | I must admit this is the fence I do not want to jump , for though I know there are new novels that succeed , I am at something of a loss to describe , in reasonable critical terms , why they succeed . |
| 9 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |
| 10 | As the result they do not sit very effectively over a bolt-hole . |
| 11 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 12 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 13 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 14 | You see in in , on the continent they do not build council ghettos . |
| 15 | Governments are picking out the bits of the plan they do not like . |
| 16 | Curtis Price ingeniously suggests that the singing actress for whom this song was written might have left the company by 1693 ; but on the omission of the Plaint he does not comment . |
| 17 | With all respect to the judge I do not agree with his finding that there was no uncertainty in the English law on this point . |
| 18 | Yet , significant as many of these developments were , the majority seem chiefly remarkable for the wealth they did not generate . |
| 19 | Mordecai himself was so much part of the shadows that at first when you stepped into the shop you did not see him . |
| 20 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 21 | So it is worth making changes , but it is essential that in the process you do not make your everyday life a misery . |
| 22 | I 'd add that at the moment we do not see any upturn in any of our major markets . |
| 23 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 24 | Over her shoulder , lying on the black leather upholstery of the back seat , he could see a black velour trilby which was vaguely familiar , though for the moment he did not have time to sort out exactly why or how . |
| 25 | If that is not over the score I do not know what is . |
| 26 | The hill he does not like so much . |
| 27 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 28 | This shows Stukeley 's keen topographical eye and fanciful imagination , but whilst the St. Peter 's area is one of the oldest places of settlement and has a regularised street pattern , like the rest of the town it does not predate the ninth century . |
| 29 | ‘ I said before the match I did not know what pressure was — well I do now . |
| 30 | Though he hopes to double the size of the group he does not plan any further acquisitions until the spring , preferring instead to work on ensuring that the Sea Life businesses are fully integrated into the group . |